Fred Block

Sep 24, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Fred Block |Dustin Guastella |Mark Levinson |Michael Walzer

The Problem With a Job Guarantee Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. ▪ Fall 2024 Read responses to this article by Dustin Guastella and Mark Levinson here. The time has come to abandon a political proposal that the left has advanced in Europe and the United States for almost 200 years: that the government should guarantee a job to everyone who is looking for work.

Sep 23, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Dustin Guastella |Mark Levinson |Fred Block |J. Mijin Cha

Responses to Fred Block Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.” , and ▪ Fall 2024 Our Fall 2024 issue features an article by Fred Block on “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.” Below are two responses to the article, along with a reply from Block. Jobs Are a Source of MeaningFred Block has written an admirable critique of the job guarantee idea from the left.

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Fred Block |Amy C. Offner |Gary Gerstle |Quinn Slobodian

The Habitation Economy The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit. ▪ Fall 2023 In 1980, Margaret Thatcher made her fateful statement that “there is no alternative” to the free market economics that she claimed would revitalize the UK economy.